How to format your references using the International Journal of Solids and Structures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Solids and Structures. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Bryant, V.M., 2003. Archaeology. Invisible clues to New World plant domestication. Science 299, 1029–1030.

A journal article with 2 authors

Colton, R.J., Russell, J.N., Jr, 2003. Counterterrorism. Making the world a safer place. Science 299, 1324–1325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, J., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F., 2013. A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Sci. Rep. 3, 2638.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Haney, M.M., Snieder, R., Sheiman, J., Losh, S., 2005. Geophysics: a moving fluid pulse in a fault zone. Nature 437, 46.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Nguyen, T.H., 2016. Leaders and Innovators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Balogh, A., 2013. Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves, ISSI Scientific Report Series. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Allen, P.M., 2012. Cities: The Visible Expression of Co-evolving Complexity, in: Portugali, J., Meyer, H., Stolk, E., Tan, E. (Eds.), Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–89.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Solids and Structures.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. World’s Oldest Hand Stencils Discovered in Tropical Cave [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-oldest-hand-stencils-discovered-tropical-cave/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1992. Education Issues (No. OCG-93-18TR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pulido, B.B., 2015. Homes as grounding counterspaces: Mexicana undocumented students utilizing mother-daughter pedagogies of resistance to succeed in higher education (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Ruling Seen as Giving an Edge to Challengers of Patents. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bryant, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bryant, 2003; Colton and Russell, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Colton and Russell, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Haney et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Solids and Structures
Abbreviation	Int. J. Solids Struct.
ISSN (print)	0020-7683
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics